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SUMMARY:CHICAGO Printers Row
DESCRIPTION:39th Annual \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest is set for Saturday\, September 7 & Sunday\, September 8\, 10AM – 6PM.\nThis FREE event takes place on the streets of South Dearborn\, from Ida B Wells to Polk Street. Come Rain or Shine!\n\n\n \nDaniel Rachel and Priscilla ‘Rude Girl’ Layne with Heather Augustyn. 3.30pm \nJoseph & Bessie Feinberg\nFoundation Stage\n(OnW. Polk St.\, just west of S. Federal St.) \nMore info https://printersrowlitfest.org/
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SUMMARY:Cleveland - Mac's Back
DESCRIPTION:TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, September 8\, 2024 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nBritish music writer Daniel Rachel\, author of Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys\, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation will be in conversation with photojournalist Anastasia Pantsios on Sunday\, September 8th at 4 pm. \nlN 1979\, 2 TONE RECORDS EXPLODED INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS of music lovers in Britain\, the US\, and beyond\, as albums by The Specials\, The Selecter\, Madness\, The English Beat\, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was Black and white: a mutiracial force of British and Caribbean musicians singing about social issues\, racism\, class\, and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices in society and fought against right-wing extremism. \nThe music of 2 Tone was exuberant: white youth learning to dance to the infectious rhythm of ska and reggae crossed with a punk attitude created an original hybrid. The idea of 2 Tone was born in Coventry\, England\, and masterminded by a middle-class art student\, Jerry Dammers\, who envisioned an English Motown. Borrowing £700\, the label’s first record featured “Gangsters” by The Specials\, backed by an instrumental track by the as-yet-unformed Selecter. Within two months\, the single reached number six on the UK music charts. Dammers went on to sign Madness\, The English Beat\, and The Bodysnatchers as a glut of successive hits propelled 2 Tone artists onto Top of the Pops and into the hearts and minds of a generation. \nAs excitement grew in the United States\, 2 Tone bands began crossing the Atlantic to perform for American audiences. Soon\, however\, infighting among the bands and the pressures of running a label caused 2 Tone to bow to the inevitable weight of expectation and recrimination. Still under the auspices of Jerry Dammers\, 2 Tone entered a new phase. Perhaps not as commercially successful as its 1979–1981 incarnation\, the label nevertheless continued to thrive for another four years\, releasing a string of fresh signings and a stunning end-piece finale in the activist hit song “(Free) Nelson Mandela.” Told in three parts\, Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief\, bright burning moment shaped British\, American\, and world culture. \nDANIEL RACHEL is a Birmingham-born\, best-selling author whose previous works include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters; Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism\, 2 Tone\, and Red Wedge; Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia; The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?; One for the Road: The Life & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene; Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever; and coauthor of Ranking Roger’s autobiography I Just Can’t Stop It: My Life in The Beat. In 2021\, Rachel was a guest curator of the “2 Tone Lives & Legacies” exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021\, and he curated the anniversary edition of The Selecter’s debut album\, Too Much Pressure. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n1820 Coventry Rd\,\n\nCleveland Heights\, OH 44118\n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToo Much Too Young\, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys\, Racism\, and the Soundtrack of a Generation (Hardcover)\n\nBy Daniel Rachel\n$32.95\nISBN: 9781636141893\nAvailability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Akashic Books\, Ltd. – June 4th\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnastasia Pantsios is a writer\, researcher\, and photographer\, with experience in both print and digital journalism. She has also have covered hard news with a focus on election and women’s issues\, music\, the arts\, and culture. Anastasia has organized and promoted events including concerts\, art shows\, meetings\, and forums. She also published Girls to the Front\, a collection of photographs of female musicians.
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SUMMARY:Saugerties\, New York
DESCRIPTION:The 2 Tone Records Story featuring author Daniel Rachel and Dance Craze\n\nTrailer Review Orpheum Tickets \nORPHEUM · SAUGERTIES\nA Foreword! event. \nMonday\, September 9 7:00p \nDaniel will be in conversation with Tony Fletcher about his new book “Too Much Too Young”: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys\, Racism\, and the Soundtrack of a Generation”  with a preface by Pauline Black\, singer of the legendary band the Selecter.  This is the story of truly iconic bands like the Specials\, Madness\, the English Beat\, the Selecter\, Bad Manners\, and others in the UK “ska revival” of the early 1980s. These bands were decades ahead of their time\, in their integration of Black and white musicians and their musical synthesis of ska\, punk\, and other genres. The author interviewed ALL the musicians in these bands and presents the history in a fascinating way. \n\nDaniel Rachel is a Birmingham-born\, best-selling author whose previous works include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters; Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism\, 2 Tone\, and Red Wedge; Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia; The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?; One for the Road: The Life & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene; Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever; and coauthor of Ranking Roger’s autobiography I Just Can’t Stop It: My Life in The Beat. In 2021\, Rachel was a guest curator of the “2 Tone Lives & Legacies” exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021\, and he curated the anniversary edition of The Selecter’s debut album\, Too Much Pressure. “As a child\, 2 Tone defined the way I saw the world. I was seduced by the off-beat rhythms\, the cool-looking clothes\, and most importantly the social and political lyrics. 2 Tone taught me about Black and white unity\, it gave a voice to the pointlessness of street violence\, and it provided an understanding and awareness of the horror of rape and apartheid. That you could dance\, look good\, and be educated by a record was incredible. This music and these bands have printed an indelible mark on my life. To write the story of 2 Tone is one of profound personal pride. But more so\, to honor one of the greatest periods in modern popular culture. 2 Tone at its heart was a movement of great song.” \nTony Fletcher (moderator) is the author of a dozen books\, including several best-selling music biographies\, a memoir\, a novel and more. Born in the UK in 1964\, he started the fanzine Jamming! during the punk rock explosion of 1977\, which led him into further areas of the music and media worlds\, and eventually into writing books. Fletcher moved to New York City in the late 1980s\, and to the Hudson Valley in the mid-2000s. \n\nFacebookTwitterEmailShare
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SUMMARY:Jersey City - Word Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:WORD Presents Daniel Rachel\n09/11/2024 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFREE Event at WORD Jersey City!\nAbout the Book \n“Madness\, the Selecter\, the Beat\, UB40\, the Specials—these were just some of the biggest names in the 1970s and 1980s movement of punk-influenced ska and reggae-based songs\, antiracist and antisexist at heart\, on the airwaves. British music writer Rachel presents a rich and vibrant history of that era and of the bands and record companies that made it happen\, with a special focus on 2 Tone Records founder\, Jerry Dammers . . . It’s a big fat book about an important\, if sometimes neglected\, part of cultural music history . . . when music of the African diaspora was heard and embraced around the\nworld.” —Booklist\, STARRED review\n\n“We lived in Britain\, a country that had benefited from immigration\, but had an innate antipathy to ideas of multiculturalism. Daniel Rachel has managed to capture the essence of that contradiction in those Margaret Thatcher years\, with this comprehensive\, cautionary\, and celebratory saga of 2 Tone.”\n—Pauline Black\, the Selecter\n\nIN 1979\, 2 TONE RECORDS EXPLODED INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS of music lovers in Britain\, the US\, and beyond\, as albums by the Specials\, the Selecter\, Madness\, the English Beat\, and the Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was Black and white: a\nmultiracial force of British and Caribbean musicians singing about social issues\, racism\, class\, and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices in society and fought against rightwing extremism. It was exuberant and eclectic: white youths learning to dance to the infectious rhythm of ska and reggae\, crossed with a punk attitude\, to create an original hybrid.\n\nThe idea of 2 Tone was born in Coventry\, England\, and masterminded by a middle-class art student\, Jerry Dammers\, who envisioned an English Motown. Dammers signed a slew of successful artists\, and a number of successive hits propelled 2 Tone onto Top of the Pops and into the hearts and minds of a generation. However\, infighting among the bands and the pressures of running a label caused 2 Tone to bow to the inevitable weight of expectation and recrimination. Over the following years\, Dammers built the label back up again\, entering a new phase full of fresh signings and a beautiful end-piece finale in the activist hit song “(Free) Nelson Mandela.”\n\nTold in three parts\, Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief\, bright burning moment shaped British\, American\, and world culture.\nAbout the author \nDANIEL RACHEL is a Birmingham-born\, best-selling author whose previous works include: Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters; Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism\, 2 Tone\, and Red Wedge; Don’t Look Back in Anger: The Rise and Fall of Cool Britannia; The Lost Album of the Beatles: What If the Beatles Hadn’t Split Up?; One for the Road: The Life & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene; and Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever. He is also coauthor of Ranking Roger’s autobiography\, I Just Can’t Stop It: My Life in the Beat. In 2021\, Rachel was a guest curator of the “2 Tone Lives & Legacies” exhibition as part of Coventry Cultural City 2021\, and he curated the anniversary edition of the Selecter’s debut album\, Too Much Pressure. Too Much Too Young \nIn conversation with \nGaylord Fields from the radio station WFMU
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SUMMARY:New York - Rough Trade Records
DESCRIPTION:Daniel will be discussing Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story with Drew Stone (Incendiary Device) and host of popular New York Hardcore Chronicles podcast.
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SUMMARY:Washington\, DC Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Daniel in conversation with Keith Willis about Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story
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SUMMARY:Supernova International Ska Festival - Virginia
DESCRIPTION:We’re bringing a new literary tent to Supernova for 2024! \n\n\n\nFeaturing seven authors on Jamaican influenced music and issues surrounding music and the media\, the literary tent pops up on the historic grounds of Supernova. Authors will be selling and signing their books\, along with in-depth talks about the topics that are featured in them. The tent will also feature live dubbing between talks and allow for anyone who wishes to try their hand at dubbing songs. The authors featured are Eric Abbey\, Heather Augustyn\, Aaron Carnes\, Kenneth Partridge\, Award winning and best-selling author Daniel Rachel\, Aram Sinnreich \, and Marc Wasserman. Come experience the music through the writers in the field and enjoy a stop between live performances at the festival. Thanks to Eric Abbey for putting this together.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe largest ska festival in the U.S. takes place at Fort Monroe\, Virginia on Sept 13-15\, 2024.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ntim@supernovaska.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsupernovaska\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlinktr.ee/supernovaska\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://supernovaska.com/
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